Epigraph a quote or statement before the beginning of a piece of literature that highlights a main idea or theme in the piece to follow. It can be used.

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Epigraph a quote or statement before the beginning of a piece of literature that highlights a main idea or theme in the piece to follow. It can be used to draw a reader's attention to a certain idea or concept, or to help set the mood of the piece.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. — Balzac (from The Godfather by Mario Puzo)

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me Man, did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? — Paradise Lost, X, 743-45 (from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley)

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. — Charles Lamb (To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee)

(from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald) Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!” — Thomas Parke D’Invilliers (from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald)